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... are your research interests? Effects of inflammation and infection on blood cell development and immune responses. Effects of inflammation and infection ...
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... provide better outcomes for patients with brain cancer including the development of novel therapies and better management of ... combination analysis, drug screening, drug detection and cell biology studies. Dr Sakoff’s laboratory cultures many cancer cell ... skin, bone, prostate, pancreas, ovary, lung, neuronal cells, and blood. T hese cell lines are used to test the anti-cancer ability of ...
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... interests in the effects of certain drugs in breaking up the blood clots that cause stroke and in salvaging brain tissue from ... such as stroke clot-busting drugs. Professor Parsons led the development of an ambulance protocol in the Hunter Region for the rapid ... neurological rehabilitation and recovery. His findings linking high blood sugar and adverse stroke outcomes have had major implications for ...
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... the kidneys. This is an adjunctive treatment for patients with high blood pressure which is resistant to standard treatments, and may be ... industry support and sponsorship. With is involvement in adult stem cell trials, Dr Thambar directs an emerging area of investigation, the ... Dr Suku Thambar Dr Dr Suku Thambar aims to enhance medical device development in the Hunter and to initiate our own early stage clinical ...
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... interests are: Selectively enhancing collateral (“bypass”) blood flow to the brain during stroke. Preventing a cell type in the brain called pericytes from contracting and strangling ... experience in the investigation of stroke pathophysiology and the development of novel therapeutic interventions to improve ...
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... on utilising the DNA from cancer cells that is released into the blood stream to create an early detection test for that type of cancer. ... • Droplet Digital PCR analysis • Biomarker design and development • Surgical Oncology techniques • Circulating tumour DNA and cell-free DNA extraction Affiliations • HMRI Cancer Group • Hunter ...
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... Therapeutic drug monitoring using microsampling such as fingerprick blood sampling Stability and compatibility of admixtures of drugs for ... and therapeutic drug monitoring which is measuring drug levels in the blood and using these to adjust doses in patients. What would be the ... that help clinicians to better use medicines in day to day practice. Development of fingerprick blood testing for drugs used in chemotherapy ...
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... a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) in 2016 investigating the blood-brain barrier, and graduated with Class I honours. I also received ... Spinal Cord Ageing Dementia Cholesterol Protein Aggregation Blood-Brain Barrier Glial Cells Regulatory RNA lncRNA Repeat Elements Genomics and Transcriptomics Development and Evolution of CNS Complexity Why did you get into ...
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What are your research interests? Understanding the development of the placenta during pregnancy and what goes wrong in ... and reproductive biology. Specialised/Technical Skills Tissue/cell culture Placental explants PCR Cell culture Immunohistochemistry Western Blotting miRNA Arrays ...
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... detection and gains resistance to current therapies. The role of the blood-brain barrier in DIPG treatment – The blood-brain barrier is ... fingerprints, his work contributed to the understanding of the development of schizophrenia, through alterations in neurodevelopment ... therapies for children with DIPG. Primarily focused on inhibitors of cell growth pathways controlled by ‘PI3K’ (Phosphoinositide ...